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A History of the County of Oxford
… concentrated around High Street and Market Place, included W. H. Tarrant and Sons' grocers, tea-dealers, and provision … in the 1840s and 1850s, 69 and the Union quarry near Tower Hill, opened for building Witney workhouse in 1835, 70 … (18234); Oxon. Clockmakers (Banbury Hist. Soc. 4), 156. e.g. Pigot's Nat. & Comm. Dir. (1842); PRO, HO 107/1731. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… juniors, and was enlarged in 1961 and again in 1993. 98 Tower Hill Primary school in Moor Lane, the open-plan Queen's … below (Holloway's Bluecoat Sch.). ORO, MSS dd Par. Cogges e 8, f. 7; c 9, item 3; VCH Oxon. xii. 73. PRO, PROB 11/598, … L.E.A. C. and J. Gott, Bk. of Witney (1986 edn), 34; H. W. Pouley, 'Story of a School: Woodgreen School' (TS 1983): …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodgreen, in Hailey Fields, and west of Corn Street and Tower Hill; the northern and eastern boundaries passed near … 303 Welch Way, named after the long-serving town clerk J. W. Welch, was laid out between High Street and the west end … Area Bk. (1877); OS Map 1:2500, Oxon. XXXI.8 (1876 edn). e.g. Hants RO, 11M59/Bp 1 E/B 112. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/64, mm. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hall'. 58 Thomas Taylor had 'seelinges of wainscottes' (i.e. wall panelling) in his hall and two parlours, that in the … Green was rebuilt in 'Jacobethan' style about 1900 for T. W. Foreshew, a director of nearby Clinch's brewery, while No. … was perhaps that of the former cross. A central clock tower with cupola and sundial was added in 1683 by the wool …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the mid 20th century. 227 The new union workhouse on Tower Hill, built in 18356 with accommodation for 450 … Subsidy 1334, 237; Oxon. Eyre (ORS 56), 140, 146; PRO, E 179/161/810. An assertion ( Bampton Hund R. 89 and … Creighton, Hist. Epidemics in Britain, ii (1894), 170; G. W. Child, Sanitary Condition of Oxon. (2nd Rep. to Combined …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on a massive scale, included a keep-like rectangular solar tower probably several storeys high, lit at ground-floor … 1945. VCH Oxon. i. 401; Chartulary Winchester Cath. ed. A. W. Goodman (1927), pp. 18990; below. For royal control during … 1662 the manorial lessee Sir Henry Hyde was assessed: PRO, E 179/255/4, pt i, f. 28. Brice was also taxed on a house in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of a major reorganisation initiated by the new rector, R. E. Meredith, who was also responsible for the establishment … Mary the Virgin, 134 long admired for its elegant central tower and spire, 135 is built mostly of coursed limestone … Dioc. c 119, f. 94v.; Alumni Oxon. 15001714. Inf. from W. Adam, team vicar (2000); ORO, MS Oxf. Dioc. c 1836, Order …
A History of the County of Oxford
… opinion through what was seen as High-Church posturing. 31 W. F. Norris (18791904) strongly disapproved of the Salvation … Methodist; a new manse for the second minister, on Tower Hill, was bought in 1939. 128 Membership of the … chapel noted in 1851 was actually in Burford. Below. e.g. ORO, BOQM I/ii/14; ibid. WCC VIII/iii/1; below. e.g. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was replaced by a new church at the foot of Tower Hill, with sittings for over 300 and an attached … Oxon. vi. 299. No other Witney Wenmans were recusants. H. E. Salter, 'Oxon. Recusants', OAS Rep. (1924), 245, 289; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wallingford; containing 125 inhabitants, and … bounded by the Isle of Wight, built a lofty hexagonal tower of brick, which is still remaining, and from the summit … union of Tenterden, hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E. division of Kent, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Tenterden; …